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I recently spent a night out at Cape Palliser on the North Island of New Zealand photographing the night sky. I awoke after a few hours sleep at 5am to see the Milky Way low in the sky above Cape Palliser. The only problem was my camera gear was at the top of the lighthouse as seen in the right of this image. I had set...

An exceptionally clear evening in Yosemite National Park. This photo was taken from Glacier Point and shows Half Dome in the center, the Milky Way, and a controlled fire in the West. 12 images stitched with Autopano Pro to 1.92Gb TIFF; Canon 5D MkIII; 24mm-70mm at 24mm; 20s; ISO 4000; f2.8.

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The very dark skies at the Somuncura Plateau, Rio Negro. Showing part of the Milky Way and the Magellan clouds over "La Azul" lagoon.
Taken on a moonless night it was so dark you couldn't see a hand in front of your face.
The brownish reflection at the lagoon is the opposite part of the milky way that was at my back...

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This is a 360 panorama I took at Anza Borrego park in the early evening after doing the gigapan.org/gigapans/70301/ I stood near my car, thinking I was there for the whole exposure, but it seems I misjudged things and I appeared as a kind of ghostly character. I was amazed at the amount of light coming from...